Posted on 03/30/2023 6:18:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Colorado pro-life advocate said he was kicked out of the state Senate gallery Tuesday for wearing a “Pro-Life U” sweatshirt while lawmakers debated a bill to censor pregnancy resource centers.
The incident occurred when Jeff Hunt, the director of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, showed up at the state Capitol with other pro-lifers for Pregnancy Resource Center Day, an event to educate lawmakers about the services pro-life charities provide to families in need.
Pro-abortion Democrats control the Colorado Legislature, and they recently began debating an anti-life and anti-choice bill that would prohibit pregnancy centers from helping women who want to try to save their unborn babies through the abortion pill reversal procedure.
Hunt said he went to the Senate gallery to listen to debate about the legislation and quickly was asked to either remove his pro-life sweatshirt or leave, according to The Federalist.
“I walked in, grabbed my seat, and I was immediately asked to step out,” he told the Daily Citizen. “They were pleasant and polite but then pointed me to a sign that states no apparel with any political sentiment is allowed.”
Here’s more from The Federalist:
Under “gallery rules” on the Colorado General Assembly website, it does not say that political messages on clothing are prohibited, and Hunt told The Federalist that he was not aware of a rule against political apparel. However, the Colorado Sergeant at Arms who escorted Hunt out of the gallery showed Hunt a small sign outside the gallery that does say expressing “political statements” is not allowed in the gallery. …
“I explained to [the Sergeant at Arms] that [my ‘Pro-Life U’ sweatshirt] is our university name. This isn’t just a political statement. This is our identity and CCU’s identity, and we have.......
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Meanwhile, on the same day, communists stormed at least one other capitol.
His brother Mike was kicked out too, right after he introduced himself.
Insurrection!
” then pointed me to a sign that states no apparel with any political sentiment is allowed.”
Unless others wearing different messages were not kicked out then the message itself was not what got him removed.
Kiddie kastrators storm the Tennessee capitol and a guy in an unapproved shirt is thrown out for no other reason.
This country is going to spin apart. There is no reconciling the two sides.
Once again, lefties show what insufferable pigs they really are.
If he wanted to be left alone he should have worn BLM.
That’s OK, Christians don’t belong in Hell anyway.
But lefties do!
That has been crystal clear for years now. Unfortunately, too many on our side have been willfully blind to how bad it truly was because they didn’t want to risk their cushy lifestyle, or didn’t want their kids or themselves ostracized. The Left is EVIL to the core, and they will never stop their insane descent into hell. There is no “middle ground.” You cannot compromise with evil.
It is time to choose - FIGHT or bow before the degenerate tyrants. Those who founded this nation and bequeathed it to us would be ashamed of our refusal to defend America, yes, even to the death if necessary. They risked everything and so should we. There are higher principles at risk than whether you can keep your BMW or get along with the liberal neighbors. They are fighting a war, increasingly literally, to end this nation and we’re sitting on our asses hoping it gets better. Newsflash: IT’S NOT GOING TO GET BETTER, and the longer we wait to sever all bonds with these animals and then grind them into the dirt the worse things will get.
“I explained to [the Sergeant at Arms] that [my ‘Pro-Life U’ sweatshirt] is our university name. This isn’t just a political statement.
So the university name is not JUST a political statement (prohibited in the gallery), but ALSO the university name.
Sorry, Charlie! Political statements are not allowed.
Am sure that someone wearing a t-shirt promoting abortion would likewise have been escorted out.
Regards,
Imagine that! No free speech in the halls of government itself. Anyone here still think this Nation is still alive?
Straight up 1st amendment violation.
“ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Additional amendments and court precedents extend this to state governments.
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